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Navigating to Your Destination

Routes

A route is a path from your current location to one or more destinations.

Starting a Route

  1. Select Where To?, and search for a location (Finding and Saving Locations).
  2. Select a location.
  3. Select an option:

    • To start navigating using the recommended route, select Go!.

    • To choose an alternate route, select Alternate route, and select a route.

      Alternate routes appear to the right of the map.

    • To edit the course of the route, select Alternate route > Edit Route, and add shaping points to the route (Shaping Your Route).

The device calculates a route to the location and guides you using voice prompts and information on the map (Your Route on the Map). A preview of the major roads in your route appears at the edge of the map for several seconds.

If you need to stop at additional destinations, you can add the locations to your route (Adding a Location to Your Route).

Starting a Route by Using the Map

You can start a route by selecting a location from the map.

  1. Select View Map.
  2. Drag and zoom the map to display the area to search.
  3. Select an option:

    • Select a location marker.

    • Select a point, such as a street, intersection, or address location.

  4. Select Go!.

Going Home

The first time you start a route home, the device prompts you to enter your home location.

  1. Select Where To? > Go Home.
  2. If necessary, enter your home location.

Editing Your Home Location

  1. Select Where To? > Menu > Set Home Location.
  2. Enter your home location.

Your Route on the Map

As you travel, the device guides you to your destination using voice prompts and information on the map. Instructions for your next turn or exit, or other actions appear across the top of the map.


Active route on the navigation map with callouts

1

Distance to the next action.

2

Next action in the route. Indicates the next turn, exit, or other action and the lane in which you should travel, if available.

3

Name of the street or exit associated with the next action.

4

Route highlighted on the map.

5

Map perspective. Allows you to change the map perspective between track up, north up, and 3-D.

6

Map layers. Allows you to add map layers such as topographic and BirdsEye imagery to your map view.

7

Map tools. You can select tools to show you more information about your route and surroundings.

8

Data field

TIP: You can touch this field to change the information it shows (Changing the Map Data Field).

Viewing Turns and Directions

While navigating a route, you can view upcoming turns, lane changes, or other directions for your route.

  1. From the map, select an option:

    • To view upcoming turns and directions as you navigate, select Menu > Turns.

      The map tool displays the next several turns or directions beside the map. The list updates automatically as you navigate the route.

    • To view the complete list of turns and directions for the entire route, select the text bar at the top of the map.

  2. Select a turn or direction (optional).

    Detailed information appears. An image of the junction may appear for junctions on major roadways, if available.

Viewing the Entire Route on the Map

  1. While navigating a route, select anywhere on the map.
  2. Select View route on map.

Arriving at Your Destination

When you approach your destination, the device provides information to help you complete your route.

  • Destination flag indicates the location of your destination on the map, and a voice prompt announces you are approaching your destination.

  • When you stop at your destination, the device automatically ends the route. If the device does not detect your arrival automatically, you can select Menu > Stop to end your route.

Parking Near Your Destination

NOTICE

This feature is for informational purposes only. You are responsible for ensuring that you are parking in accordance with posted signage and any applicable laws, regulations, or rules that may apply to your desired parking location.

Your device can help you find a parking spot near your destination. When you approach some destinations, the device automatically suggests parking areas.

  1. Select an option:

    • When the device suggests parking, select More to see all of the suggested parking areas.

      NOTE: When you select a suggested parking area, the device automatically updates your route.

    • If the device does not suggest parking locations, select Where To? > Categories > Parking, and select Near Destination for the search area.

  2. Select a parking location, and select Go!.

The device guides you to the parking area.

Changing Your Active Route

Adding a Location to Your Route

Before you can add a location to your route, you must be navigating a route (Starting a Route).

You can add locations to the middle or end of your route. For example, you can add a fuel station as the next destination in your route.

TIP: To create complex routes with multiple destinations or scheduled stops, you can use the route planner to plan, schedule, and save a route (Planning a Route).
  1. From the map, select Back > Where To?.
  2. Search for a location (Finding and Saving Locations).
  3. Select a location.
  4. Select Go!.
  5. Select an option:

    • To add the location as the next destination in your route, select Add As Next Stop.

    • To add the location to the end of your route, select Add As Last Stop.

    • To add the location and edit the order of destinations in your route, select Add to Active Route.

The device re-calculates the route to include the added location and guides you to the destinations in order.

Shaping Your Route

Before you can shape your route, you must start a route (Starting a Route).

You can manually shape your route to change its course. This allows you to direct the route to use a certain road or go through a certain area without adding a destination to the route.

  1. From the map, select Menu > Edit Route > Shape Route.

    The device enters route shaping mode.

  2. Select a map location to create a shaping point.
    TIP: You can select Zoom in to zoom in on the map and select a more precise location.
  3. If necessary, select an option:

    • To add more shaping points to the route, select additional locations on the map.

    • To remove a shaping point, select the shaping point and select Trash symbol.

  4. Select Done.

Taking a Detour

You can take a detour for a specified distance along your route or detour around specific roads. This is useful if you encounter construction zones, closed roads, or poor road conditions.

  1. From the map, select Menu > Edit Route.
  2. Select an option:

    • To detour your route for a specific distance, select Detour by Distance.

    • To detour around a specific road on the route, select Detour by Road.

Changing the Route Calculation Mode

  1. Select Gear symbol > Navigation > Calculation Mode.
  2. Select an option:

    • Select Faster Time to calculate routes that are faster to drive but can be longer in distance.

    • Select Straight Line to calculate point-to-point routes in a straight line.

Stopping the Route

From the map, select Menu symbol > Stop.

Using Suggested Routes

Before you can use this feature, you must save at least one location and enable the travel history feature (Device and Privacy Settings).

Using the myTrends™ feature, your device predicts your destination based on your travel history, the day of the week, and the time of day. After you have driven to a saved location several times, the location may appear in the navigation bar on the map, along with the estimated time of travel, and traffic information.

Select the navigation bar to view a suggested route to the location.

Avoiding Delays, Tolls, and Areas

NOTICE

Garmin® is not responsible for the accuracy or timeliness of information concerning traffic, toll areas, or other potential areas of avoidance.

Avoiding Traffic Delays on Your Route

Before you can avoid traffic delays, you must be receiving traffic information (Receiving Traffic Data Using Your Smartphone).

By default, the device optimizes your route to avoid traffic delays automatically. If you have disabled this option in the traffic settings (Traffic Settings), you can view and avoid traffic delays manually.

  1. While navigating a route, select Menu > Traffic.
  2. Select Alternate Route, if available.
  3. Select Go!.

Avoiding Road Features

  1. Select Gear symbol > Navigation > Avoidances.
  2. Select the road features to avoid on your routes, and select Save.

Avoiding Environmental Zones

Your device can avoid areas with environmental or emissions restrictions that may apply to your vehicle.

  1. Select Gear symbol > Navigation > Environmental Zones.
  2. Select an option:

    • To be asked each time before routing through an environmental zone, select Always Ask.

    • To always avoid environmental zones, select Avoid.

    • To always allow environmental zones, select Allow.

  3. Select Save.

Custom Avoidances

Custom avoidances allow you to select specific areas or sections of road to avoid. When the device calculates a route, it avoids these areas and roads unless no other reasonable route is available.

Avoiding a Road

  1. Select Gear symbol > Navigation > Custom Avoidances.
  2. If necessary, select Add Avoidance.
  3. Select Add Avoid Road.
  4. Select the starting point of the section of road to avoid, and select Next.
  5. Select the ending point of the road section, and select Next.
  6. Select Done.

Avoiding an Area

  1. Select Gear symbol > Navigation > Custom Avoidances.
  2. If necessary, select Add Avoidance.
  3. Select Add Avoid Area.
  4. Select the upper-left corner of the area to avoid, and select Next.
  5. Select the lower-right corner of the area to avoid, and select Next.

    The selected area is shaded on the map.

  6. Select Done.

Disabling a Custom Avoidance

You can disable a custom avoidance without deleting it.

  1. Select Gear symbol > Navigation > Custom Avoidances.
  2. Select an avoidance.
  3. Select Menu > Disable.

Deleting Custom Avoidances

  1. Select Gear symbol > Navigation > Custom Avoidances > Trash symbol.
  2. Select an option:

    • To delete all custom avoidances, select Select All > Delete.

    • To delete one custom avoidance, select the avoidance, and select Delete.

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